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Topic: Planned downtime this weekend

Dreamhost has been sucking lately and making this site inaccessible, so I'm moving hosts for Rails Forum. On Saturday around 9AM Eastern time, or whenever I wake up , I'll begin the process of moving the files and database over to our new host. Everything should be up and running again in a few hours, or whenever DNS updates. Hopefully this new host will be more stable than the last

Re: Planned downtime this weekend

Heh, I was going to ask as I'm getting slightly miffed at Site5, but if DreamHost isn't much good I'll stick with Site5 for now.

I've been having my sites go down every few days for up to 4/5 hours (usually 1/2). Site5 usually just come back with a 'server has been rebooted' or 'server was under heavy load' reply, no real explanation or offer to improve the situation. Hope you have better experience with them.

Re: Planned downtime this weekend

Hmm, Kelli and I have had some sites on Site5 for awhile now (about a year, maybe), and not had any major problems. Just one issue a couple of months ago where all our databases disappeared--but they fixed it fairly quickly and restored the DBs from their backups--no loss of data.

I also have an account at ASmallOrange.com -- which is another cheap-ish Rails host that I am really happy with. Though I have never used them for Rails.

Re: Planned downtime this weekend

I've not had any major issues with Site5, except that their tech support isn't nearly as quick as it once was. As Bleys said, t here was a time a while back when I experienced some donwtime/lost db servers, but it was all sorted out after a few hours and that's really the only issue I've had in the year and a half I've been with them.

Re: Planned downtime this weekend

Today I'm currently up to 7.5 hours of downtime (that I know of from the time I got into the office this morning). Still waiting for Site5 to reply/fix the problem but I've asked them to provide a longer-term solution to me once they've fixed the immediate issue.

It sounds like most people are happy with them, the server I'm on (semnai.site5.com) has just been getting progressively worse.